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Battle of the Bulge. Curt Bruns (March 12, 1915 – June 15, 1945) was a Wehrmacht captain and war criminal. He was the first war criminal to be executed by the United States Army for war crimes after World War II. Bruns was shot for having ordered the executions of two U.S. prisoner of war during the Battle of the Bulge after learning they ...
Herberts Albert Cukurs (17 May 1900 – 23 February 1965) was a Latvian aviator and Nazi collaborator. He served as the deputy commander of the Arajs Kommando, a collaborationist unit that carried out the largest mass murders of Latvian Jews during the Holocaust. [1] [2] Although Cukurs never stood trial, the accounts of multiple Holocaust ...
The purge in Norway after World War II (Norwegian: Landssvikoppgjøret; lit. 'National treachery Settlement') was a purge that took place between May 1945 and August 1948 against anyone who was found to have collaborated with the German occupation of the country. Several thousand Norwegians and foreign citizens were tried and convicted for ...
Kragujevac massacre: This was a Nazi war crime and partially an act of genocide in which Serbs, Jews and Roma men and boys in Kragujevac, Serbia, were murdered by German Wehrmacht soldiers on 20 and 21 October 1941. The crimes during the 1944 Warsaw uprising such as the Wola massacre or the Ochota massacre.
Nazi Party. Conviction (s) Crime against humanity. Trial. Stutthof trials. Criminal penalty. Death. Jenny-Wanda Barkmann (30 May 1922 – 4 July 1946) was a German overseer in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. She was tried and executed for crimes against humanity after the war.
Executions of German POWs during World War II. In 1945, the United States Army executed fourteen German prisoners of war by hanging at the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The 14 POWs, members of the German armed services, had been convicted by general court-martial for the murders of fellow Germans believed by ...
the Nemmersdorf massacre: mass murder and rape of ~74 German citizens (as well as ~50 French and Belgian POWs) by the Red Army's 2nd Guards Tank Corps. the Treuenbritzen massacre: mass murder and rape of German citizens by Soviet soldiers. the Massacre of Broniki: mass murder of 153 German POWs by Soviet soldiers.
Japanese people executed for war crimes (2 C, 24 P) N. Executed Nazis (12 C) O. Executions by the Ottoman Special Military Tribunal (1 P)